Acacia euthyphylla
| Acacia euthyphylla | |
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Priority Three — Poorly Known Taxa (DEC) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Caesalpinioideae |
| Clade: | Mimosoid clade |
| Genus: | Acacia |
| Species: | A. euthyphylla
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| Binomial name | |
| Acacia euthyphylla | |
| Occurrence data from AVH | |
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Acacia euthyphylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a dense to medium dense, rounded to funnel-shaped shrub with finely ribbed, glabrous branchlets, erect linear phyllodes, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers and linear pods.
Description
Acacia euthyphylla is a dense to medium dense rounded to funnel-shaped shrub that typically grows to a height of 1–2 m (3 ft 3 in – 6 ft 7 in) and has slightly bending, finely ribbed, glabrous branchlets. The phyllodes are erect, linear, straight to slightly curved, 40–90 mm (1.6–3.5 in) long, 2–3 mm (0.079–0.118 in) wide and slightly thickened, with a gland 10 mm (0.39 in) or more above the base of the phyllode. The flowers are borne in two spherical heads in axils on a peduncle 5–8 mm (0.20–0.31 in) long. Each head is 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) in diameter with 18 to 23 golden yellow flowers. Flowering occurs in August and September and the immature pods are linear, up to 60 mm (2.4 in) long and 3.5 mm (0.14 in) wide.[2][3][4][5][6]
Taxonomy
Acacia euthyphylla was first formally described in 1999 by Bruce Maslin in the journal Nuytsia from specimens he collected 0.5 km (0.31 mi) south of the northern boundary of the Truslove water reserve in 1985.[2][7] The specific epithet (euthyphylla) means 'straight-leaved' and refers to the more or less erect phyllodes.[3]
Distribution and habitat
This species of wattle grows in sand or clay loam in seasonal swamps, or around the edges of salt lakes, marshes and seasonally wet swamps between Truslove and east to Clyde Hill, (about 110 km (68 mi) east of Truslove[3] in the Esperance Plains and Mallee bioregions of southern Western Australia.[6]
Conservation status
Acacia euthyphylla is listed as "Priority Three" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions,[6] meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a few locations but is not under imminent threat.[8]
See also
References
- ^ a b "Acacia euthyphylla". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 2 December 2025.
- ^ a b Maslin, Bruce R. (1999). "Acacia miscellany 16. The taxonomy of fifty-five species of Acacia, primarily Western Australian, in section Phyllodineae (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae)". Nuytsia. 12 (3): 347–348. Retrieved 2 December 2025.
- ^ a b c Maslin, Bruce R. "Acacia euthyphylla". Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra. Retrieved 2 December 2025.
- ^ "Acacia euthyphylla". World Wide Wattle. Western Australian Herbarium. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
- ^ "Acacia euthyphylla". Australian Biological Resources Study. Retrieved 2 December 2025.
- ^ a b c "Acacia euthyphylla". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
- ^ "Acacia euthyphylla". APNI. Retrieved 2 December 2025.
- ^ "Conservation codes for Western Australian Flora and Fauna" (PDF). Government of Western Australia Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. Retrieved 2 December 2025.